140 x 180mm, 44 pages, Black & white printing, Screw bound, Unique covers, Hand numbered, Edition of 50, 2025

'The glass with the fingers dipped in' is a collection of seventeen short stories and poems exploring the porous and charged arena of face-to-face encounters. Through a series of symbiotic, sensual, and disconcerting moments of closeness, eyes, hands, and lips lock and flicker among objects caught mid-motion.

A bag of salad scrunching mid-air, a painting waiting in a drawer, and red velvet curtains dropping slowly like thick crème pâtissière – the images and characters in these stories are incubated in anchorless moments of contact. Motifs and gestures mimetically transform, whilst social etiquette, desire and disregard sit poised; ready to either solidify or evaporate.

These stories draw on historical ideas of human connection and the performativity of bodies within them. Alongside playful allusions to the psychoanalytic relation, the theatrics of hypnosis, and animal magnetism, the writing draws on an early modern belief that ‘vision rays’ from our eyes could carry spirits transmitted through blood vapours into another’s eyes, producing an infectious and affective theatre of relational bodies.

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